arXiv:2607. 14616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision--language models have become increasingly capable of interpreting visual scenes, but it remains unclear whether they can use information to make strategically effective decisions.
By Jasin Cekinmez, Addison J. Wu, Haotian Xia, Akshaya Bharadhwaj, Anay Putty, Anirudh Ravishankar, Jaewoong Lee, Jinglin Xiao, Kyumin Andrew Shim, Mishika Ahuja, Nisarga Patil, Leo Liu, Zhuohan Liu, Weining Shen
arXiv:2606. 15032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models have rapidly become one of the central abstractions in modern AI.
By Yang Yu, Shiyuan Zhang, Yifei Sheng, Haoxiang Ren, Haoxin Lin
The paper investigates whether open‑source Vision‑Language Models (VLMs) can perform zero‑shot action quality assessment (AQA) on Olympic diving videos. Using the AQA‑7 benchmark, the authors propose a regression framework that combines VLM‑generated semantic reasoning, phase‑level sub‑scores, TF‑IDF vectorization, dimensionality reduction, and ensemble learning to predict final competition scores. While individual VLMs achieve moderate Spearman correlations (<0.32), the ensemble approach boosts performance to 0.67, demonstrating that VLM‑derived textual reasoning features are more informative than raw numerical sub‑scores for AQA.
whyItMatters":"The study shows that VLMs can serve as explainable, semi‑automated tools for evaluating sports performance, potentially aiding expert judging in complex, subjective Olympic events."
By Henry O. Velesaca, David Freire-Obregon, Luigi Miranda, Abel Reyes-Angulo
arXiv:2609.28049v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Video understanding is usually benchmarked on curated, single-actor, or professionally filmed clips, and a strong score there is routinely read as ev...
By Sai Varun Kodathala, Prashanth Pollishetty, Jaylen Cargill
arXiv:2608. 01193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An AI development race creates a multi-agent safety dilemma.
By Phu Hoa Pham, Duy Minh Dao Sy, Trung Kiet Huynh, Phu Quy Nguyen Lam, Chi Nguyen Tran, Minh Trung Le, Phong Hao Le, Dinh Nam Nguyen, Thien Ky Nguyen Dong, Elias Fernandez Domingos, Le Hong Trang, The Anh Han
arXiv:2607. 17765v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce WC2026-Agents, a benchmark and dataset for evaluating large language models (LLMs) as autonomous forecasting agents on real, future events.
By Jiacheng Ding, Cong Guo, Jason Xu
arXiv:2606. 30686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) systems, built on pretrained vision-language models (VLMs), have shown rapidly improving performance on robot manipulation benchmarks.
By Taozhao Chen, Ian Manchester, Huaming Chen
Video understanding is usually benchmarked on curated, single-actor, or professionally filmed clips, and a strong score there is routinely read as evidence a model is robust enough for deployment. Ama...
arXiv:2606. 15032v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World models have become a central abstraction in modern AI.
By Yang Yu, Shiyuan Zhang, Yifei Sheng, Haoxiang Ren, Haoxin Lin
FM‑Bench is a new benchmark that tests large language model agents on long‑horizon decision‑making by having them run a football club for 20 in‑game years. The agent must manage a squad, trade players, negotiate contracts, invest in facilities, set lineups, and respond to a board that can fire it, all while a deterministic engine aggregates the outcomes into a final score without human judgment. The benchmark evaluates six behavioral capabilities and compares 15 frontier models in solo and arena tracks, revealing that managerial behavior—not computational scale—drives performance.
FM‑Bench is a new benchmark that tests large language model agents on long‑horizon decision making by having them run a football club for 20 in‑game years. The agent must manage a squad, trade players, negotiate contracts, invest in facilities and youth, set lineups, and respond to a board that can fire it, all using 26 tools and roughly 340–400 decision stops, with a deterministic engine producing a final score without human or LLM judges. The benchmark includes a solo track where each of 15 frontier models competes against a frozen scripted world, and an Arena track where the same models plus a scripted anchor share one 20‑year world, allowing the first head‑to‑head evaluation at this scale.
whyItMatters":"FM‑Bench provides a rigorous, large‑scale test of sustained, cumulative decision‑making in language‑model agents, revealing that managerial strategy—not computational scale or vendor—drives performance over long horizons."
By Tianyou Wang, Chongyang Gao, Kezhen Chen, Chen Dong, Yinghao He, Donghan Li, Wangcheng Xu, Hongjiu Zhang, Chi Li
arXiv:2606. 18950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often struggle with strategic reasoning, i.
By San Kim, Daechul Ahn, Reokyoung Kim, Hyeonbeom Choi, Seungyeon Jwa, Jonghyun Choi